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חָרוּץ

cha.ruts

trench

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Strong’s H2742cNoun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

a moat1

In the text

Daniel 9:25וְחָרוּץ
Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

חָרוּץ n.[m.] trench, moat—only in Dn 9:25

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.